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UP's Marsh Job shuffles hoppers on the near south side at the Port of Milwaukee, a place that still employs a decent amount of local switching work from both the UP and CP.
As freight car capacity and size increases, so does the horsepower requirement to move said cars. One of CN's "Super Switcher" sets heads north on the Camrose Sub after switching the Atla Steel Plant on the east side of Edmonton Alberta.
Maine Northern Railway Train 900-14 makes some switching moves at Skerry Siding on the Madawaska Subdivision.
Out of view behind the train is a massive sawmill owned by Maine Northern's parent company J.D. Irving. The mill makes up a large portion of MNR's traffic, shipping logs to Woodland, lumber, and chips for Irving's papermills in Saint John. Having just spotted a cut of empty chip cars, an army of front end loaders has already started the process of loading the empties. Roughly 50 chip cars, around 20 log cars, and 9 center beams can be loaded at a time. Depending on demand, the mill can be switched on both the north bound and southbound leg of 900's journey.
The empty log cars on the head end are destined for the yard at Fort Kent, where they will be loaded by the TNT Road Company which harvests for Irving Woodlands. Others will go to Irving's Grande-Riviere sawmill in Saint-Leonard, NB to be loaded there.
Maine Northern Railway
Train: 900-14
1/14/2024
Skerry, ME
MNR Madawaska Subdivision
Don't we all have a tendency to get into routines, doing things the same way over and over, just because that's how we've always done them. Routines can be a trap that prevent us from seeing opportunities and experiencing life.
Here's a thought; what if you're so intimately involved in your life that you have lost perspective? Like a frustrating problem that you can't walk away from.
The way out of that trap is to get out of your routine. Make an effort to experience something new, really new and different, every day. Make it a point to take alternate routes to familiar places. Try a new kind of food. Adjust the lighting differently. Re-arrange your furniture. The list is limitless and so are the possibilities.
Step back, look at the things you do every day, and ask yourself "why?" Then look at the things you've never thought you could do, or never considered doing, and ask "why not?"
Take yourself to the places where you have never been, in the people you don't know much about. One place to do such activity is Hunza. With all its mystery and grandness Hunza takes you out of the routine and for sure stun you with the atmosphere and history.
The only way you can take control of your life is to switch off the auto-pilot and steer your way into this world.
Taken: Baltit Fort, Karimabad, Central Hunza, Northern Areas of Pakistan
Exposure: 20 sec
Aperture: f/20.0
Focal Length: 14 mm
ISO Speed: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Auto, Did not fire
Odashirogahara
小田代ヶ原
The color is changing to green.
季節の移り変わりです。
[16:9 trimming]
Nikko city, Tochigi pref, Japan
Sony A7RIII + ZEISS Batis 40mm f/2 CF
Handheld. Edited in Lightroom CC + VSCO.
From Bangkok. Thailand.
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When you read you surely felt this feeling of leaving reality, living some one else's life jumping, laughing endlessly in your own made up world that exists secretely in your mind and no one is possible to manipulate or destroy it. When I've read a book which plot fascinated me so enourmously, even days after, I am dizzy, rewiniding the smallest details in my head, learning the most beautiful passages by heart and thinking what a great loss the death of one person was, I can get really sad, thiking what a loss for the world it is - BUT wait stop, it's only a book. No one died here. But thiking of the fate of the characters makes me thinking of human's fates and I am sure there is a person who experienced and felt things the protagonist felt, so I assure me I can be sad, for a person I've never known and never going to meet.
Girly image, girly room, girly pillows
310068 enters London Euston with a local service on 8th August on 1984. Introduced in 1963, these Derby built AM10s were the mainstay of fast electric services in the Midlands and London lasted just into the new century, the last sets being withdrawn in 2002.
There appears to be a huge number of switch diamonds in this part of the station throat at Euston.
Switch House, Tate Modern designed by Herzog & de Meuron the extension to Tate Modern opened June 2016.
Concrete stair.
L&C 2369 lead #12 today from Richburg to the Chester Industrial park, seen here near Orrs, SC.
They had a fairly sizable train both ways, but made good time getting back to the NS interchange.
Right off of NS's Moorman Yard, Bunge's little switcher shoves back into their own yard at their grain elevator and oilseed refinery in Bellevue.
LSLX SW8 #905
Bellevue, OH
January 16th, 2022
A pair of Illinois Central GP38-2s switch at the west end of CN's former EJ&E Kirk Yard, as seen from Clarke Road.
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North Western geep 4206 takes a break from switching the quarry west of Downtown Elmhurst on a nice evening in August 1986.
Late night passengers on the platform at lonely Minersville, PA watch with interest as the crew of a Central Railroad of New Jersey Switcher go about their business of shifting cars around for the next day's operations.
This image was captured during an October 2023 night photo shoot organized by Railroad Restoration Project 113, which featured the 1923-vintage Central Railroad of New Jersey 0-6-0 Switcher, # 113 under steam. Strobe lighting was provided by Steve Barry Photography.
A Lehigh Valley Rail Management crew brings a long cut of double stack cars into the River Yard for interchange to NS.
The train is led by a trio of EMD switchers:
LVRM 19 MP15DC (ex-CI/SB/PBNE 19)
LTEX 1517 SW1500 (ex-PC/CR 9556)
LVRM 1146 MP15DC (ex-CSXT 1146, LN 5036)
Two former BN units still wearing green, a SD60M and a GP39E, do their switching in Joliet, IL with the L-CHI102.
Burlington Northern #240 is seen at Cicero yard switching intermodal cars on June 15th, 1987. I never was a big fan of the BN and didn't live close to it at all but my dad and I did wander around Chicago a lot so I did hit some spots.
BN SW1200 #240 was built by EMD as CB&Q #9282 in July of 1965. Loco may still be around dressed as BNSF 3509.
North Shore Line trolley/battery motor 456 switches just east of CTA's Skokie Shop in February 1962. Photo by Ed DeRouin, from my collection.